Pocket for trousers



(No Model.)

B. BISSINGER. POCKET FOR TROUSERS.

"Patented Aug. 15

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BENJAMIN BISSINGER, OF CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE.

POCKET FOR TROUSERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 503,363, dated August 15, 1893.

Application filed March 21, 1893. Serial No. 466,983- (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN BissINeEn, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Chattanooga, in the county of Hamilton and State of Tennessee,have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Pockets for Trousers, of which the following is a description.

This invention relates to an improvement in wearing apparel, and more particularly to the peculiar construction of corner pockets in trousers.

The object of the invention is so to construct a corner pocket as to render it seamless-that is, the pocket incision or opening will be bound by a continuous, unbroken line, as distinguished from the ordinary corner pocket in which one corner is formed by the side seam of the leg, and the other by the waist-band in which latter case the said corner has to be tacked and stayed in order to prevent tearing from use.

A further object is to provide a pocket having its opening reinforced by a stay or welt constructed of a single piece of material having an incision of the same contour as the pocket opening, whereby the entire pocket opening both at its outer edge and on its interior is reinforced.

With these objects in View the invention consists in the novel construction and combination of parts of a trousers pocket, as will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification and in which like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts, Figure 1 is an elevation of the upper portion of a trousers leg taken from the outside, showing the peculiar contour of the pocket opening. Fig. 2, is a like view taken from the inside of the trousers leg showing more particularly the reinforcing welt. Fig. 3, is a plan view of the pocket proper, showing its peculiar contour, and also the pocket facing secured thereto. Fig. 4, is an elevation of the inner side of the trousers leg showtng the pocket secured in place below the pocket opening, with the portion carrying the pocket-facing unstitched. Fig. 5, is asimilar view showing the pocket stitched in place.

Referring to the drawings, 1, designates a portion of the trousers leg, in the upper cornor of which is provided a curved incision 2 forming the pocket opening. This incision extends from near the Waist-band to a point near the side seam of the trousers, but is never extended to the edge of the goods. The shape of the incision may also be varied, but for simplicity the curved incision shown is preferred.

Upon the inside of thetrousers leg and surrounding the pocket opening is a welt or facing 3 which is constructed of a single piece of cloth having an incision 4 of the same contour as the pocket opening. This welt is first stitched to the raw edges of the pocket opening by a row of stitches 5, and is then turned back and secured to the rear side of the trousers leg by a row of stitching. 6, thus forming a reinforced edge 7 which surrounds the pocket opening, and gives it a neat and finished appearance, and at the same time prevents any unraveling of the goods immediately surrounding the pocket opening.

The pocket, to which reference has been made, is constructed of a shield shaped piece of material 8, having its upper edges out to conform to the pocket opening and is stitched thereto on one side as shown at 9 in Fig. 4. The other side of the pocket blank carries the pocket facing 10 which is of the same material as the trousering, and when the pocket is folded over and stitched in the position as shown in Fig. 5, forms a covering for the pocket opening as clearly shown in Fig. 1.

The advantages claimed for this peculiar form of pocket are: first, that there is no goods Wasted as with the ordinary corner pocket; second, the reinforcing welt or facing gives a neat and finished appearance to the pocket and at the same time reinforces it against wear and ripping at the corners, and third, that the pocket is below the vest and is therefore easier of ingress and egress than the ordinary corner pocket which is under the vest.

Having thus fully described my invention, serial, and a pbckebblank Secured to the said 10 what I claim as ncw, and desire to secure by trousers andcarrying appcket-facing adapted Letters Patent, is to form a covring forthe pock efi-inci sion. A pair of trousers, or the like, having a I1; tstimony whereof Iflhereunto affix my 5 pocket-incision bounded by a continuous line, si nature in'thc prcsenceof two witnesses. a reinforcing-welthavingan incision of like BENJAMIN BISSINGER. contourwvith thcpockct incision forreinforc- Witncs scsu I ing thesam'c atc all" cintgsaid welt being F. E. TYLER, constructed ofa'single seamless piece ofcma JOHN N SHAPLEY. 

